THE BEST PSU CABLES - Silverstone Strider Plus 1000W Unboxing w/ Custom Cables
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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usa.com this unboxing is actually meant to be an unboxing of a couple of
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different things so number one is going to be silverstone's Strider gold
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Evolution power supply the golden standard for PSU performance efficiency
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and quality is what they have to say for themselves about it it delivers 1,000
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watt sustained 1100 Watts Peak and has
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basically just got all the other good stuff about it that Silverstone usually
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has so there's a quiet 135 mm cooling fan this is a Strider series power
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supply so it is presumably fully modular
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although I actually am not 100% sure and
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actually no I'm kidding yeah it's 100% modular um okay there's some manuals
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inside there's some stuff inside here
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um don't worry I'm getting to the second part of the unboxing very quickly here
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so we've got a power cable from do not eat there's that do not eat throw away
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do not eat thank you uh we've got closed
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cell foam which is of course very good for keeping your power supply safe look
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at this that's a nice touch that's a new thing so they've included a magnetic
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dust filter so that's a 140 mm dust
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filter you go ahead and pop that on your power supply or if you don't want to use
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it on your power supply you go ahead put it somewhere else it's up to you it's magnetic so it'll like stick to things
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that aren't your face no doesn't stick to my face okay that's
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okay uh power supply you've got some cable management velcro zip ties as well
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as some regular zip ties some oh look at
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that two sets of mounting screws so they include four thumb screws and then four
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regular black screws for mounting the power supply to your case
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and the power supply itself which has AB
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actually just a gorgeous finish on it so it's got kind of a it looks very similar
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to Mountain mods's black sprinkle finish and you can tell right away with a paint
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finish is it going to be durable is it not going to be durable this looks like one of the nicer this might be the
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nicest finish on a power supply I've ever seen check that out that looks
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absolutely gorgeous okay so uh FF 141 yeah
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magnetized fan filter included 24-hour fully continuous power output with a 40°
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Centigrade operating temperature so that is extremely high um if you're actually
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operating your computer in a 40° C environment then I feel really really
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really bad for you in addition to your computer so that means that in all
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likelihood this power supply can do more than 1,000 watt sustained if you're in a
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reasonable room which is probably more like 20° C so about half of that it uses
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a single 12vt rail to achieve its th000 watt output so that's 83 amps on that
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single 12vt rail which means it can provide almost its entire th000 watt
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output on that single rail meaning it's probably using a voltage converter as
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opposed to having dedicated circuitry inside so it's actually going okay we're
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going to take the ac voltage coming in at the back we're going to convert it
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all to 12vt DC and then we're going to convert that DC voltage to 5vt and 3.3
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volt which are the other rails on the power supply this actually ends up being
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more efficient than the more traditional approach of having dedicated circuitry
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for each one so it's a very very good way to do it and it also means that
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you're not going to be limited in terms of how many graphics cards or how many
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12volt heavy devices that you can plug into it CPUs for example also use 12vt
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uh okay so that's pretty much it for that let's have a look at the cables
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included and then we're going to move on to the most special part about this
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power supply unboxing which is that you don't have to use these cables so
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Silverstone has gorgeous power supplies
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they look fantastic but they're not always necessarily the ones that I would
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want to use for a showcase build because the cables included while they have
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decent sleeving on them I mean you actually can't see the color of the cables underneath too much this is
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better than most of the Silverstone power supplies I've seen before
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often leave a little bit to be desired because these connectors you can see are
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using colored cables and there there's a little bit of bare area and all that
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kind of stuff so I'm going to show you the alternative cables that you can use
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that are the best cables I have ever seen uh so first of all harnesses so the
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first harness here is quadruple Mo
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rather triple Molex with a floppy connector on the end of each one and
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it's about a hm looks like about a Linus
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belly button to tip of Linus ARM in terms of of length all right the next
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one we have these are quad SATA harnesses and they are using sort of the
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uh the upside down configuration so that means you have to run it up to the top
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and then down to an optical drive due to the orientation of the connector itself
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um this doesn't really bother me because generally speaking if I'm going down to
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hard drives I don't mind kind of going like this because they're not that far away and if I'm going down to an optical
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drive I'm usually cable managing up the back of the case but not everyone
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prefers that so I'm going to go ahead and let you guys make a decision similar
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length on that guy 24 pin connector very
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short for the 24 pin connector which I do like to see because you don't need a
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long 24 pin connector you don't route them that far all modern cases pretty
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much have a nice place to put them uh these PCI Express cables have capacitors
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built into them this can actually uh improve the performance but it's not the
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kind of thing again that I'd like to see on the best cable managed system ever so
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there's two 6 plus2 connectors that have individual connectors on the ends and
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then there's two more that have a 6 plus2 and an additional six pin and
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these are ideal for graphics cards that have two connectors so you only actually
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have to run one cable over to the whole thing and then you can plug in two
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connectors to the graphics card itself so it's a total of four 6 Plus tws and
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two six pin connectors and finally you've got two 4 plus4 connectors for
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high-end motherboards that ask for two of them
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now I promised to show you guys the best
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sleeved CA that I have ever ever
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encountered ever and if I could figure out where my knife was then I would do
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that here we go so we're going to cut it open that felt
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violent and there we have it so these
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are not these are better than MD PCX folks these are the best I've
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encountered they actually are using more of a cloth Braiding on them as opposed
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to a so they're individually sleeved and they're using not plastic no plastic and
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it's um yeah just oh absolutely
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beautiful I mean part of the point of sleeving is for looks part of the point
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is for better air flow in the case which individually sleeving the cables kind of
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kicks in the teeth but it's fashionable right now so people do it um but the
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last point of sleeving cables is actually to make them more durable so if
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you were to accidentally slip with a screwdriver and hit something or with a
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knife or scissors or pretty much almost anything else you'd actually have a
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really hard time cutting these cables because they have an extremely durable
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leing or if you had like a cut out in the in a CPU tray or some or a CPU hole
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or something and it rubbed up against it for a long time if it was a just not
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covered in sleeving at all if you had two cables that wore out they could
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short on each other whereas this that will not happen so I have a 24 pin I've
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also got uh some other ones here so I've
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actually got a wide variety of these cables you can pick them up they're good
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for any uh okay for Silverstone power supplies only refer to website for
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details is what they have to say for themselves but but they're available in
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a wide variety of different configurations and I think that pretty
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much wraps it up so okay yes the Strider 1000 watt beautiful looking power supply
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kind of ugly cables but you have the opportunity to put the nicest cables
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available on it all right guys so this is officially the most gorgeous looking
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power supply that uh I think anyone here
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in the studio has ever seen so we've got
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a number of different kinds of connectors here so this guy right here
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is an individually sleeved 6 plus 2 the great thing about these individually
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sleeved cables is if you want to run just a six you don't have to put the two
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right next to it you can actually just tuck them away somewhere here I me you
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could even cut them off if you really wanted to but I'd feel like like I'm
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destroying a work of art with this uh particular power supply this one right
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here is a 6 plus 2 plus a six so that
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way you could run one gorgeous sleeved cable to a video card that needs two
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connectors I'm just going to put this down here so here's our 24 pin which
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also oh wait no it isn't that's two 4 plus 4S there we go so those are for
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your CPU connectors oh looks so good so good like
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So Pro so much better than even like Pro
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sleeved individually done power supplies because if you even look at where
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they're terminated there's no heat shrink on any but a few of the
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connectors so this one's special because there's two wires going into into that
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one so you can see that there's just there's nothing it's completely clean
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it's very very rare that you see someone put the time and attention into plastic
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sleeving to get that right because you'll actually have to pre-plan the way
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the cable's going to curve to have them all terminate like that see something like Molex it's a little bit tougher to
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do that because of the way that the pins are done but with anything like um here
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we go where are they
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uh yeah there we go so there's the four pins so the four plus fours where are
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the SATA ones SATA ones look very clean as well so there's no color to them
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whatsoever I think they're using black wires inside but it's so hard to tell
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because this sleeving is so so opaque
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you just can't see through it at all so absolutely gorgeous um I think these
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wires are a little bit no they're about the same length as the stock ones that
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were included so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking
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